A closer look at the ‘Twelve Commandments’

By Ian Robinson

One of the many untruths propounded by the Judea-Christian religious tradition is the concocted story that, one day on Mount Sinai, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. But the actual phrase ‘Ten Commandments’ does not appear anywhere in the Hebrew text of the Bible.

Archaeologists are now pretty certain that Moses didn’t exist, at least as far as being the hero of the story told in Exodus is concerned – the escape from captivity in Egypt and crossing the Red Sea and getting the tablets from God and so on. There is absolutely no evidence for a Jewish captivity in Egypt at that time (or at any other), let alone a miraculous escape.

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